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Computational Imaging, and Statistical Analysis of Tissue Microarrays: Quantitative Automated Analysis of Tissue Microarrays

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Berger, A.J., Camp, R.L., Rimm, D.L. (2006). Computational Imaging, and Statistical Analysis of Tissue Microarrays: Quantitative Automated Analysis of Tissue Microarrays. In: Zhang, W., Shmulevich, I. (eds) Computational and Statistical Approaches to Genomics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-26288-1_18

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